[geeks] Can someone sell me a cheap ultra sparc :-)

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Sun Jun 1 07:43:04 CDT 2003


Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:38:14AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix
> wrote:
> > > Another impact of these changes is that UltraSPARC systems that
> > > contain UltraSPARC I processors with clocks that run at 200MHz or
> > > lower frequencies might not be supported in a future release. 
> > This sounds awfully arbitrary.  Is Solaris going to check your clock
> > speed and shut off if its too low?
> 
> Its related to the bug that makes 32-bit kernels the default on Ultra1
> boxes.
> 

I've never had a reason not to run the 64-bit kernel on my Ultra 1.  I
don't run just any arbitrary code on it - I mean, it's not a Windows
machine....

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